Hurting yet whole : reconciling body and spirit in chronic pain and illness
(2020)

Nonfiction

eAudiobook

Provider: hoopla

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PUBLISHED
[United States] : Dreamscape Media, LLC, 2020
Made available through hoopla
EDITION
Unabridged
DESCRIPTION

1 online resource (1 audio file (6hr., 09 min.)) : digital

ISBN/ISSN
9781662055256 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) MWT13799306, 1662055250 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 13799306
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Read by Caroline McLaughlin

As Liuan Huska went through years of chronic pain, she wondered why God seemed absent and questioned some of the common assumptions about healing. What do we do when our bodies don't work the way they should? What is healing, when one has a chronic illness? Can we still be whole when our bodies suffer? The Christian story speaks to our experiences of pain and illness. In the embodiment of Jesus' life, we see an embrace of the body and all of the discomfort and sufferings of being human. Countering a Gnosticism that pits body against spirit, Huska takes us on a journey of exploring how healing is not an escape from the limits of the body, but becoming whole as souls in bodies and bodies with souls. As chronic pain forces us to pay attention to our bodies' vulnerability, we come to embrace the fullness of our broken yet beautiful bodies. She helps us redefine what it means to find healing and wholeness even in the midst of ongoing pain

Mode of access: World Wide Web

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